Breech-loading firearm.



PATENTED DEC. 1, 1908.

No. 745,885. F. MOSSBERG.

- BREEOH LOADING FIREARM.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 14, 1903.

NO MODEL.

. thereon below its 4 1118,! P sses the half-cock position.

- this contact of the lower prong of the shoe trigger is released and in its foremost position the finger act the sear is by this cocking movement thus depressed far enough to be engaged by the bar w, which when the triggr is pulled will ride upward on the inclined surface 2;. and will pull the sear out of the full-cock notch in the hammer. Then as the'hammer-falls and the trigger is released, the sear on the rebound of the hammer flies into the half-cock notch, which carries the point' of the finger u above the plane of the bar w, and consequently the next pull on the, v

trigger causes the bar w to slide under this finger it instead of engaging it, and-thusthrough t'hearm j the swinging latcheiswithr above the axis of the latter and the other be-, low .it when" the hammer is atl'aa'lf-boek. When the hammer is upper prong of the shoe bears thereon. When only the lower prong hearsdrawn back, only the the ham mer falls,

pivotal point after the hem- Hence serves to elfect the rebound. of the hammer. The post 'y fitsloosely in a piece 3, the spring vat caring against the end of this piece 3 and The'piece3 hasa bearthe end of theshoe 2.

ing on the frame,

and when the spring w'is It is thus seen that in a certain po- Masses p a slight movement in said piece 3'. v

From the foregoing description it is obvious that until the ham full-cock it will be to trip the sear; and been brought-to fn-ll-cock it is likewise im compressed and released the slot is to effect the trippingmovement of the merit in said s lot.

Having thus descri ent of the United States, is

j own type, a hammer, a trigger, a lockinglatch for the barrel, and an arm pivotall-yeentrigger being free to move more or lessgrelative to said arm; asear, and means on the hammer, operable when the latter is hronght f to cocked position, to move the seqrig position to be of th t s 2 In a breechJoa dawn t n .h mlileikfiiz riggen a. clockingnected tof'the trigger together; with a sear, and means operated only byt-he cooking movement of the hammer to. swing said sear into 0SOA F.'MOSS ERG. Witnesses: I

WM.,H.'CHAPIN,

K. I. CLEMONS.

sear before it reaches the limitzot fit's' move: v

I so, bed my invention, what I claim, anddesire to secureby'Letters Patytiu have m'er'has been brought to impossible for the trigger after the hammerhes 45 possible for the trigger to operate the locking-' Y latch e,for the trigger has sufiicien tplay in the 1. Inabreech-loading firearmof the breaknected to the trigger "and to the latch,cthe

engaged by the in-itial movement of 5 t latch for western eivotally tum. by a the trigger mayoperate the latch,

7 position to be engaged-=1 by the initial movemen of the trig er. I 

